I’m ready for the holidays…I have one final next week, just political science and then I’m done. I can’t wait to go home, but it looks like I won’t be able to until January. Don has to work throughout December and he’ll take off a week or so at the beginning of January so we can go home. I’m excited.
I’m feeling a little better now. I finally put up my portfolio, SA Design. I ended up drawing a picture of Copper and using that as the layout. It only took me about two days to get the illustration and layout done. I’m pretty happy with the results. It looks a lot like Copper. Coloring was hard at first, I’m not very good with illustrator. I’m still not very good at coming up with content ideas for That College Kid or here even. I had to force myself to write this.
Registration is next week for the spring semester. Don and I are taking a lot more hours than we did this semester. Silly me thought college was going to be hard. Freshmen year sure isn’t. I’m still not taking any of my Psychology courses, but that’s okay. I’m still not sure if I want to keep this major. I’m pretty sure though that I don’t want to do computer science…I don’t really want to be a programmer. And I love designing, but I definitely don’t want it to be my career. If I’m not inspired to do my own thing, what could I do for a client? Besides, if I’m a web designer, what would my hobby be?
Don and I went to the beach today. A girl Don works with went with us and she caught all the fish. Don caught a few, I think. Me and Copper played mostly, he’s not big on fishing. I’m a little sunburned, but that’s pretty normal for me. I actually have a pretty decent tan for the first time in my life. It’s nice to finally be a little bit darker even though I really don’t care that much about my skin. It’s skin. Mine’s white. Who cares. It looks good on me. Copper’s sleeping off his long day.
I have a serious lack of inspiration all around. A few weeks ago, I needed to redo my stepdad’s taxidermy website, but I just couldn’t come up with a layout. And then it took me days to finally come up with an idea for the redesign of this website and now I’m onto my mom’s site. She’s a college professor and I’ve been doing her website for…maybe seven years. I remember the first layout I used on it was from Layout Land (or something like that). Seriously, I was like ten. I can’t believe I’ve been doing this stuff since then. It’s incredible.
Her university has this great new logo since they changed their name a few years ago and they’re very anal about its usage. You can’t edit/reproduce it in any way and you can’t resize it. WTF. I had this cute idea to use my mom’s name in place of the university’s name with the star in between, but apparently, I can’t do that. So there went my idea. Besides that, I didn’t know what else to do. So I went and played Nintendo 64 (seriously, I played Mario Kart) and then when I came back I had some ideas. So that’s what I’m working on now, although of course I’m procrastinating.
On a different note, I’m not sure the newest version of Wordpress is necessary for personal blogs like mine. I don’t use tags at all. I really don’t understand the need for tags when there’s already categories. I like categories better anyway, because I’d have way too many different tags. For That College Kid, I use tags, but only for my SEO. I still don’t entirely get all that I’m supposed to do about that. I’m getting visitors and making a little bit of money so that’s all I really care about.
Don and I are both big baseball fans and although our team is the Atlanta Braves, we still love the Astros. We are from Texas after all. So last Sunday we went to see the last regular game of the season, Braves v. Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston. We bought good tickets on ebay and drove up to Houston. This game wasn’t just the last game of the season, it was Craig Biggio’s last game ever.
He was picked up by the Astros twenty years ago as a rookie and has played his entire career with them. He holds a few records, some with the Astros franchise and some with the league. He’s been an all-around amazing player and I’m sorry to see him go. He was great to the Astros and he will be missed.
The game itself started off great, Biggio scored his last double and the Astros were up 3-0 in the first inning. The rest of the game was uneventful, but the ceremony was wonderful. Craig spoke before and after the game and the owner of the Astros spoke as well. They presented him with a plaque and a case with his jersey. It’s amazing when a crowd full of men start crying because one man is retiring.
I know some of you are like me and not necessarily overweight, but do need to start making healthy decisions about what you eat. For about two years my diet consisted of mostly donuts, chips, and jelly beans. Occasionally there was a Snickers bar or some M&Ms thrown in. Now that I’m in college, I have a very limited budget and that’s making my eating habits suffer. One way to keep up with that is to keep track of everything you eat and its nutritional value. And what with this Web 2.0 frenzy of friendly websites to help you with everything from poker to organization, why not take advantage?
In my search of a great nutritional website, I came across My Fitness Pal. The website’s tagline is “Free Calorie Counter, Diet & Exercise Journal.” There’s an easy diet profile that will help you come up with a plan to either maintain or lose weight at your own pace. I find that very helpful. Since I’m not overweight, I just want to maintain my weight and keep up with a journal to track my eating and exercise and the calorie counter does all of it for you.
If you have home cooked meals (lucky you!) or even Lean Cuisines, there’s a simple way to find the nutritional value with their calorie chart. If you look up spaghetti, it gives you possibilities for how exactly it’s made, such as spaghetti and meat (107 calories per 100 grams). It’s also 100% free, which is great since I’m such a poor college student.
